diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 4ea179882803c800b8a55ef4c61b962db567b0b2..5fba28a15726e0a75a8848c004d90358f91fd6fd 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 [submodule "faser-common"]
-	   path = faser-common
-	   url = ../faser-common
+	path = faser-common
+	url = https://:@gitlab.cern.ch:8443/faser/faser-common.git
diff --git a/faser-common b/faser-common
new file mode 160000
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1da690c5f4481ebc34e6ac0ee0e1b104cfe5cf36
--- /dev/null
+++ b/faser-common
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 1da690c5f4481ebc34e6ac0ee0e1b104cfe5cf36